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Lot work in SASO draws on “biological inspiration” Less claims “social inspiration” Yet many of the problems we are addressing are strongly related to highly researched topics within the social sciences: Tragedy of the commons (free riding, fairness) Emergent Social networks

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Original designer of BT (Brahm Cohen) cites work by Robert Axelrod (Michigan) directly as inspiration

Axelrod is a Political Scientist who ran a computer tournament in the early 80’s asking people to send him algorithms that implemented strategies in a simple game that captures notions of cooperative interactions (the Prisoner’s Dilemma)

The winner of those tournaments was TFT

Axelrod wrote a book “the evolution of cooperation” discussing the results of the tournaments and their implications for social systems – including a theory of how “peace” broke out during trench warfare in WWII

Unreconstructed classical game theory approaches are rarely of use. Don’t be fooled by the nice mathematical proofs. The assumptions are too unrealistic / unconst. Even economists think it’s out of date now.

If an emergent property is truly surprising the the best we can do is exploit it or cope with it. Opportunistic behaviour. This is what we all do every day in human society. Successful individuals are opportunistic, agile and rapidly adapt to new social conditions that nobody intended or designed

For example, BitTorrent will take advantage of altruism not produced by the tit-for-tat strategy and make effective use of it